June Birthdays from Mary Jane Kellam's Birthday Book

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 Here are the June Birthday's from Mary Jane Kellam's Birthday Book




June 4

Mrs. James Stuart

Geo. F. Ferirs

June 6

Mrs Rosetta Tyler Hankins N.Y.

Rosetta Ross was born 6 June 1819 in New York, the daughter of John Ross and Love Hurd. She married Benjamin Tyler, son of Benjamin Tyler and Sarah Kellam in August 1839. Rosetta Ross Tyler died 3 April 1888. 

Rosetta Ross Tyler's relationship to Mary Jane Kellam is where my family tree ties itself up in knots.

Looking at the closest relationship between Mary Jane Kellam and Rosetta Ross, they were first cousins once removed, both descended from John Ross and Sophia Tyler. 

Or they were related in this way - Rosetta was Mary Jane Kellam's husband's mother's half-sister. Benjamin Tyler and Rosetta Ross were step-siblings - her father married his mother after their first spouses died. Mary Ellen Ross was both Benjamin and Rosetta's half-sister, sharing a mother with Benjamin and a father with with Rosetta. Mary Ellen Ross was William Lucas Hankins's mother. William Lucas Hankins was Mary Jane Kellam's husband. 

Or if you look at the 1875 map of Hankins, Sullivan County, New York, Rosetta and her husband Benjamin were Mary Jane Kellam's next-door neighbors as she was growing up. 



June 7

George L. Jones  Scranton, Pa

George Lewis Jones was born 7 June 1872 in Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, the son of Roderick Jones and Elizabeth Lewis. He married Margaret James, the daughter of Edward James and Magdalen Price before 1900. George Lewis Jones died on 12 June 1948 in Scranton. George L. Jones attended Keystone Academy in Factoryville, Pa with William Lucas Hankins, Mary Jane Kellam's husband. 



June 13

Mrs Edward Smith  Northford, Conn

Georgiana Amelia Smith was born 13 June 1834, the daughter of Jude Basset Smith and Eliza Goodyear. She married Edward Smith, son of Nathaniel Stacy Smith and Eliza Frisbie on 1 May 1885. Georgiana Amelia Smith Smith died on 10 April 1900 in Connecticut. I have no clue what the connection between Mary Jane Kellam and Georgiana Smith was. 



June 17

A Irena Curtis Farno, Wayne Co  K.A.

Amanda Irena Curtis was born 17 June 1871 in Clinton, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Henry Banning Curtis and Louisa Griswold. She married James Charles Patey, son of Arthur Patey and Philippa Charles on 28 September 1899. Amanda Irena Curtis Patey died 14 October 1966 in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington. Amanda attended Keystone Academy in Factoryville, Pa with William Lucas Hankins, Mary Jane Kellam's husband. 


June 23

Grandma Shaffer 1805

Sarah Melvina Benedict was born 23 June 1805 in Saratoga County, New York, the daughter of Ezra Benedict and Sarah Clarke. She married Philip Shafer, son of Philip Shafer and Catherine Eckert on 13 May 1824. Sarah Melvina Benedict Shafer died on 11 April 1880. She was Mary Jane Kellam's maternal grandmother. 

Zena Ide Meeker, Pa. Keystone Academy 1891

Razena Ide was born 23 June 1870 in Lehman, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Edward Foster Ide and Mary Emelia Crispell. She married William Rice Gordon, son of Zelotes Grinnell Gordon and Sarah E. Rice on 25 June 1893. Razena Ide Gordon died in 1962 in Kansas. Razena Ida attended Keystone Academy with William Lucas Hankins, Mary Jane Kellam's husband. 

June 24

Sister Clara

Clara Belle Kellam was born 24 January 1883 in Hankins, Sullivan County, New York, the daughter of John Ross Kellam and Frances Maria Shafer. She married Floyd Harding, son of James H. Harding and Anna C. on 9 October 1906 at Hankins. Clara Belle Kellam Harding died 8 July 1966 in East Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey. She was Mary Jane Kellam's sister. 


June 29

A.bam Buscholn  1823   Nov-17-'94


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